Install Win 7 Ultimate x86 or x64 with 4GB RAM?

what do you need more than 3.5 gigs of RAM for? I've never needed that much and I do heavy gaming. A 64-bit processor will run 32-bit code just fine.

I am sure there is nothing wrong with it. I am just stating that I will not beable to use more then 3.5 gigs of Ram and use the 64bit side of my processor.

You can if you dual-boot 32 and 64-bit like I do. I still use 32-bit XP 99% of the time anyways.

I do have a dual boot of XP x86 and x64 and use the x86 99% of the time. I am just trying to find out some info on Windows 7 to see if some of the barriers that held back XP x86 was the same in Windows 7 x86.

Thank you for your time. I will keep looking to see what I can find out.

mttomb

MCP,

yeah, the problem is the same. 32-bit drivers are no good for 64-bit. If you have hardware that isn't 64-bit capable, stick with 32-bit. Only other choice is to buy new hardware, which I'm sure the company that stopped supporting your current hardware will just love.

I have a system here with a EVGA mainboard, 1.5 gigs of RAM. I did many benchmarks between XP 32-bit and Win7 64-bit on single core and dual core processors and XP 32-bit was the fastest a great majority of the time.

This particular EVGA motherboard is an older nForce SLI.

You're not going to notice much difference between 2 core and 4 core until you start using applications that make efficient use of all the cores.